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Are you a stupid parent interested in embarrassing your child? Why not follow in the footsteps of Robert Edwards, who complained that Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale—a novel that his seventeen-year-old son was reading in English class at Lawrence Park Collegiate—was "rife with brutality towards and mistreatment of women (and men at times), sexual scenes, and bleak depression" and contained "profane language" and an unfair treatment of Christianity. Edwards filed a formal complaint with the Toronto District School Board in December, telling the Star he was "looking for justification as to why this is an appropriate book," even though the novel's Wikipedia page would have mostly taken care of that job for him. And now, the Star is reporting today that Edwards' formal complaint to the Toronto District School Board was roundly rejected by the board's book review panel—they're "very supportive" of keeping Atwood's Tale in the classroom.
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The Handmaid's Tale, pfft.
Aztec, by Gary Jennings is the book to keep off the shelves!!
why?
Probably because they eat people. Lots of cannibalism and blood in the book.
Way back when, I went to school in a district next to one of the ones that removed The Stone Angel from classes. Our school didn't outright ban it but quietly removed it without fuss (complete coincidence I'm sure) and replaced with the much more wholesome A Clockwork Orange. Now I'd rather read Burgess than Laurence any day but I did think it was pretty funny.
while they're at it, they should have A Separate Peace removed from schools for its *obvious* homosexual undertones.
That and it was a total piece of garbage. I hate John Knowles.
The best part is that I distinctly remember the student being assigned Brave New World as a substitute novel. Now that's wholesome stuff.
Parents make the worst parents.
that dad's a turd. I read that book on my own in grade 7 and proceeded to write an assignment on it for class. Teach thought it was "mature for my age". That notion didn't even cross my mind.